GLOBAL HEALTH FRONTIERS: FOUL WATER, FIERY SERPENT, the first in a series of public television specials chronicling the devastating illnesses affecting the world’s poor, follows a cast of engaging, passionate characters as they confront the disabling parasitic infection known as guinea worm disease. The film, narrated by Academy Award®-winner Sigourney Weaver, documents the efforts of American health workers and community partners over the course of three years as they track and treat the last-known cases of guinea worm in Ghana and Sudan.
Watch Global Health Frontiers Friday, April 20, 2012 at 10pm.
